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Richard Edwards

Best 'Doctor Who' villains ranked — the best monsters of the new Who era

Steven Moffat David Tennant Earth Matt Smith Russell T Davies Sutekh Flood
Four Doctor Who villains, shown left to right: Cyberman, Dalek, Missy (The Master), and the Silence.

The best "Doctor Who" villains are often the reason we watch the long-running British sci-fi institution. Sure, we fall in love with the Doctor and their companions, but in a show that's effectively a "Twilight Zone"-style anthology series, a story is only as good as its monsters.

Luckily, "Doctor Who"'s rogues' gallery is more than a match for the baddies you'll encounter in "Star Trek", "Star Wars", or any other science fiction franchise. In fact, there have been so many classic antagonists over the last 62 years that we've had to focus this list of the best "Doctor Who" villains on monsters who've appeared since the show's successful 2005 reboot. Even then, we still couldn't find room for the Autons, the Boneless, the Family of Blood, the Great Intelligence, the Ice Warriors, Omega, the Rani, Sutekh, the Veil, or the Zygons.

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